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Voyeurism
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Voyeurism
See also Eavesdropping.
Actaeon
turned into stag for watching Artemis bathe. [Gk. Myth.: Leach, 8]
elders of Babylon
watch Susanna bathe. [Apocrypha: Susanna; Art: Daniel, 217]
Gyges
king’s bodyguard requested secretly to view queen undressing. [Gk. Lit.: Avery, 507–508]
Peeping Tom
illicitly glanced at the naked Godiva. [Br. Legend: Brewer Dictionary, 815]
Roberts, Mr.
takes advantage of unshaded hospital window to watch nurses taking baths. [Am. Lit.: Heggen Mister Roberts in Sobel, 479]


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Jamie's footage of the pageant, shot with a handheld camera and then edited to incorporate historical depictions of Saint Joan, gives the segment a behind-the-scenes, almost voyeuristic feel as well as a sense of continuity with the past and an understanding of the ongoing fascination with her mythology.
In titled, memoir-like chapters, Banks gives readers a voyeuristic glimpse into 25 years of the life of a young Jewish woman who, after college, seeks employment, and love, in New York.
Dora DeLuise, camping it up, plays a voyeuristic director who assigns them "intimacy exercises" involving kneeling, facing each other, and doffing their shirts.
 
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